The international transactions accounts provide information on trade in goods and services (including the balance of payments and the balance of trade), investment income, and government and private financial flows. In addition, the accounts measure the value of U.S. international assets and...

We apply insights from Edith Penrose`s work to extant theory of the multinationalenterprise (MNE) as enveloped by John Dunning`s Ownership, Location,Internalization (OLI) Paradigm...

Financial constraints have been found to play an important role on various aspects of firmbehavior. Yet, their effects on firm survival have been largely neglected. We use a panel of9420 newly established UK firms over the period 1997-2002 to study the effects offinancial variables on firms´...

This paper investigates replacing separate taxation by consolidation and formularyapportionment in a Bottom-up Federation, when a multijurisdictional firm is mobile invarious respects. The reform is decided cooperatively by all the jurisdictions or by some ofthem, while tax rates remain within...

This paper analyzes the impact of taxes and lending conditions on the financial structure ofmultinationals' foreign affiliates. The empirical analysis employs a large panel of affiliates ofGerman multinationals in 26 countries in the period from 1996 until 2003. In accordance withthe theoretical...

We consider the plant location decision of a multinational, which has the option to invest in a more or aless technologically advanced country. We find that in the absence of exporting by the local firms, themultinational will invest in the country lagging behind, unless the firms in that...

If one is going to use a framework like this, Hofstede´s is the most comprehensiveand validated. (Eckhardt 2002:93). Obiges Zitat widerspiegelt die Debatte um die Hofstedesche Kulturtheorie.So gilt die Studie zweifellos als die bislang umfassendste Untersuchung in derinterkulturellen...

Die bundesdeutsche Logistikbranche boomt und ist ein echter Jobmotor. Die Logistik ist nicht nur einer der größten Wirtschaftsbranchen in Deutschland und wird als Motor für Wachstum und Innovation gesehen. Sie führt damit auch zur Schaffung neuer, zukunftsfähiger Arbeitsplätze. Im Jahre...

It was the aim of the study group to make progress in the evaluation of the bank relationships a company maintains. This evaluation should help to increase the efficiency of the net of financial institutions a company is banking with. In view of the very small number of publications on this...